Masters for Hire by Ginger Voight

Author:Ginger Voight [Voight, Ginger]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Ivy Lane Media, LLC
Published: 2015-10-07T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TEN

Despite my many questions, Devlin was tight-lipped as we piled into the cab he hailed outside the hotel at eleven-thirty that evening. Instead of talking to me, he was on his phone the minute the door shut behind us. “Hey,” he said into the phone. “You up for company?” There was a pause. “I have a fashion emergency. We need your help, STAT,” he added with a good-humored grin as he winked at me. “Great. See you in about twenty minutes.”

“Where are we going?” I asked again when he disconnected the call.

“I think I know someone who can help,” was all he said as he pulled me back into the crook of his arm.

The cab took us west, away from the bright lights of the strip, which made the towering neon behemoth of the desert look like any other normal city with neighborhoods and family homes and supermarkets and drycleaners. It all seemed so… ordinary. “Sometimes I forget that people live here,” I said, which made both the cabbie and Devlin smile.

We curved around on the Summerlin Parkway, before exiting to a suburb in the shadow of Red Rock Canyon. The cabbie finally came to a stop in front of a nice condominium. Devlin got out first, and then offered his hand to assist me to my feet. He then paid the cabbie, tipping handsomely I might add, before he took my hand and led me to one of the townhome apartments.

I wasn’t sure what I expected when the door finally opened, but a robust redhead wasn’t it.

She stood about five-foot-five or six, with curly hair the dark color of rust. She wore purple-framed glasses and a wraparound purple dress covering her ample figure, which my trained eye could figure was at least a size 22 or better. She finished the ensemble with ballet flats on her feet. She appeared younger than Devlin by a good five years. There wasn’t a speck of makeup on her face, which made her look even younger still. She paused to wipe a stray bit of tomato sauce from the corner of her chin. “Dev! What are you doing here?” she asked Devlin before throwing her arms around him for a big hug where he picked her up off of her feet.

He squeezed her tight. It was clear his affection for this unusual woman was great. “How can I come to Vegas and not visit my sister?” he asked.

My eyes flew open wide as he turned to make the introductions. “Coralie, this is Darcy Masters. Darcy, this is my good friend, Coralie Cabot.”

I thought “good friend” was a bit much, but it wasn’t like he could call me a trick, or a john (Jane?) Clearly he didn’t wish to identify me as a client, which was fine by me. I extended a hand with a smile. “Lovely to meet you.”

Darcy wiped her hand on her dress before she reached for a handshake. “Miss Cabot, so nice to meet you too. Please. Come in.”

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